Shutter-worker



(No Model.)

R. G. DUDLEY.

SHUTTER WORKER. 10.265.772 Patented 0015.10, 188 2.

WITN ESSES UNITED STAT-Es PATENT Oneref RUSSELL G. DUDLEY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

SHUTTER-WORKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,772,dated October 10, 1882.

Application tiled July 15, 1 882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, RUSSELL Q. DUDLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State ot' New Jersey, have 'invented a new and valuable Improvement in ShutterlWorkers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ot' the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l ot' the drawings is a longitudinal sectional view ot' my shutter-worker. Fig. '2 is a side view of the same detached from the window-frame, and Figs. and 4 are detail views ofthe operating-rod.

This invention has relation to shutter-workers; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement ot' parts, as will be herein after fully described and claimed.

In'the accompanying drawings, the letter a designates the tixed branch ot the. hinge,which isprovided with a tubular guide-projection, b, extending from its inner or bearing surface into the window-casing, and serving to form a long bearing for the operating slide-rod o, as well as to brace this branch ot' the hinge rmly in position. An arm,d, projects outward from the base-plate ot' this branch of the hinge, and carries the pintle o atits outer end.

g represents themovable branch ot' the hinge, which is designed to be secured to the shutter. It is also provided with an outwardly-projecting arm, h, having a bearing, 7c, for the pintle c, and projecting outwardly from said bearing is an oblique,arm,rl, to the end ot' which is pivoted a connecting-bar, m, which extends to the endot' the operating-rod o, and is pivoted thereto, as shown in the drawings. On the oblique arm l is formed a stud, s, which projects near the inner edge ot' the connection m when the shutter is closed, and serves as a fulcrum for said connection, transforming it into a lever when its outer end is pulled inward by the operating-slide o in opening the shutter, whereby theinitialmovementisgreatlyfacilitated. The inner end ot' the operating-rod is threaded at 1' to receive the internally-threaded end of the adjustable couplingp, the other end ot which is formed with a forked bearing, q, in which the end t ot' the handle-section o ot' said opering-rod is pivoted. The end t of this handlesection may be extended to form a lock, whereby the shutter is held open when said section is dropped or hangs pendent in the vertical position. The operating-rod is designed to work through an externally-threaded tubular bearing or bushing, fw, which is inserted into thecasingontheiusideofthewindow. Through the wall of this bushing, at its projecting end, is made a threaded perforation,f, to receive a set-screw, z, designed to bear against the operating-rod or its handle-section, and serving thereby to hold the shutter in any desired posilion-opein closed, or bowed at any angle.

An operating-rod with a nut-and-sorew counection and a coil-spring is old. A jointed and pivoted operating-rod is also old in shutterworkers, and neither ot' these constructions are broadly claimed herein. i

Having described this invention, what I cla-im, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

A shutter-worker hinge consisting ot' the ixed branch a, having a pintle-carrying arm, d, and a tubular bearing, b, for the operating slide-rod, and the sh utter-branch g, having the pintle-hearing k, and the oblique arm l, extending outwardly therefrom, and having the fulcrurnV-stud s to engage the bar connecting said oblique arm to the operating slide-rod, substantially as specitied.

1n testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

RUSSELL G. DUDLEY.

XNTitnesses:

THEO. MUNGEN, PHILIP U. Mast. 

